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> In this US, equality means there are grants for women, black, disabled, asians, mulims, jews, blinds, deafs, natives... and pretty much none for white people.
by disposekinetics 6y ago
> In this US, equality means there are grants for women, black, disabled, asians, mulims, jews, blinds, deafs, natives... and pretty much none for white people. Or it's Positive Discrimination. Pretty much everyone is doing stuff for its own group, AGAINST the other groups.
If you want evidence of this look at how COVID vaccines are discussed in the US media. The constant refrain isn't about getting the vaccine out to as many people as fast as possible, it is about getting it out to this or that minority group.
- watwut 6y agoAmerican minority is more likely to get covid and more likely to die from it. There are multiple reasons from that (biology, the types of jobs they have, etc).
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoThe statistics are not indicative of need-based or even racial equity. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-covid-19-vaccinations-cases-deaths-race-ethnicity/ https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
- haihaibye 6y agoMen are 2-3x as likely to die as women but I don't think anyone's going to prioritize them.
- watwut 6y agoAfaik, the relative mortality of men and women varried during pandemic, but overall does not seem to be in 2-3x difference.
- haihaibye 6y agoIt was 2-3x for intensive care, 1.4x for death "male patients have almost three times the odds of requiring intensive treatment unit (ITU) admission (OR = 2.84; 95% CI = 2.06, 3.92) and higher odds of death (OR = 1.39; 95% CI = 1.31, 1.47) compared to females. With few exceptions, the sex bias observed in COVID-19 is a worldwide phenomenon." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6#:~:text=Taken%20together%20these%20data%20highlight,and%20death%20(OR%201.39) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6#:~:text=T....